Spiritual Quotes

"I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there"

Martha Beck, Author

"Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

"The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however"

Uma Thurman, Actress

"Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions"

Matthew Henry, Clergyman

"You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience"

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Philosopher

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience"

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Philosopher

"Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution"

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Philosopher

"In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music"

Link Wray, Musician

"There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind"

Annie Dillard, Author

"We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of"

H. P. Blavatsky, Philosopher

"At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people"

John Henrik Clarke, Author

"I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

"In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over"

Amy Alcott, Athlete

"I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"Someone like Einstein was quite clearly a moralist, and he had a very highly developed political vision and was very spiritual in his way, and there are many biologists and physicists of the first order who are like that"

Jonathan Miller, Entertainer

"Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order"

Hans Kung, Theologian

"I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"Many things there be in the scripture, which have a carnal fulfilling, even there where they be spoken or done; and yet have another spiritual signification, to be fulfilled long after in Christ and his kingdom, and yet never known till the thing be done"

William Tyndale, Clergyman

"Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles"

David Suzuki, Scientist

"That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction"

David O. Russell, Director

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